Physics-Informed Video Generation via Mixture-of-Experts Latent Alignment
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Abstract (arXiv)
Large-scale video generation models have made remarkable progress in semantic consistency and visual quality, producing videos that are increasingly coherent and visually convincing. Nevertheless, the dynamics induced by pixel-level fitting do not naturally accommodate the regularities that govern real-world motion and interaction, resulting in persistent shortcomings in physical plausibility. To address this limitation, we propose PILA (Physics-Informed Latent Alignment), a framework that injects physics-structured latent guidance into the frozen flow-matching dynamics of pretrained video models. Specifically, PILA first employs anchored field estimation to map frozen-generator latents into an operational physical attribute bank organized by field-proxy slots, using observable motion as a kinematic anchor for constructing less directly observed proxies. To handle the heterogeneity of real-world dynamics, PILA adopts a mixture-of-experts design over physical categories. Label-prior masked expert routing selects category-specific operator experts, whose refinements are regularized by operational residuals abstracted from physical relations. Finally, the refined proxies are fused into the physical attribute bank and decoded into a correction to the flow-matching vector field, injecting physics-aware guidance while preserving the visual prior of the pretrained backbone. With staged adapter training on Wan 2.1-1.3B and direct transfer of the learned adapter to Wan 2.2-14B, PILA achieves state-of-the-art results on VBench-2.0, VideoPhy-2, and PhyGenBench in both visual quality and benchmark-measured physical plausibility.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 45 of its 48 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 3 Jun 2026.
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